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Baring was born into the Baring banking family on 11 January 1807, the fourth son of Sir Thomas and Lady Baring. Having been educated privately as a child, he read classics and mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford before ordination. He first married his cousin Mary Sealy in 1830, who died in 1840: they had at least one child – Tory politician Thomas Baring was their son; he later remarried in 1846, Caroline Kemp, with whom he had further children – their son Francis became a priest.[1]